Anime production began in Japan in 1917. And her idea was innovative and unique, as these films relied on cutting and pasting pictures to produce a cartoon movie that simulates a story, But its production was stopped in 1923 due to the earthquake in the Kantō region. In addition to its high cost, But it reappeared again and its condition continued between spread and absence, which helped to bankrupt the anime companies at the time.
This continued until the appearance of the famous anime series, the spaceship Yamato, in the seventies of the last century, which helped in the prosperity and global spread of Japanese anime films that have continued until the present time.
Top 5 most popular Japanese anime of 2018
Penguin Highway movie
He created the anime, Penguin Highway, at Japanese studio Colorido. This movie is based on a science fiction novel by Tomihiko Morimi.
The story of this film tells about a boy in the fourth grade of primary school Oyama, And about a mysterious woman living near their house who helped him pull out his first tooth from his mouth, Shortly afterwards, a group of penguins appeared in the quiet neighborhood in which he lives. Which made Oyama trying to search for a convincing explanation for the mystery of the penguins’ strange appearance.
- Movie release date: August 17, 2018.
- movie rating: fantasy, and daily life.
- film director: Hiroyasu Ishida.
Maquia movie: When the Promised Flower Blooms
The events of this film revolve around a young girl from a tribe called the Hipulion, the lonely tribe whose people do not grow up and cannot socialize and meet with humans, This girl met a newly born human baby, so she decided to take care of him and raise him. While she is forbidden to associate with humans, The story of the film continues in that the child grows up little by little and the girl does not grow up at all.
This movie was produced by PAWorks studio and the movie was a huge success when it was sold in the market.
- Movie release date: February 24, 2018.
- Film director: Mari Okada .
- Movie character designer: Akihiko Yoshida.
- Music Supervisor: Kenji Kawai.
Bungo Stray Dogs movie: Dead Apple
The events of this film revolve around a group of people who have supernatural powers, but these people use their powers to commit suicide. This event coincides with the sudden appearance of dense fog. This made the Office of Special Investigations begin to investigate this case to unravel its mystery. This movie is classified under Action , Supernatural, and Mystery films. This movie is produced by the Japanese company Bones.
- Movie release date: March 3, 2018.
- film director: Takuya Igarashi.
- Film story writer: Asagiri.
- Movie character painter: Sanju Harukawa.
movie mirai
This film comes within the framework of drama and fantasy, as it talks about a young child who receives great care and pampering from his parents. But when he learns of the arrival of his sister, he becomes angry and revolts against his parents and has mixed feelings towards them because he feels that he will lose his parents’ love for him and that they will not spoil him as is the case now.
One day, he meets a copy of his sister, but she is from the future. After that, the events of the film continue on how this young boy deals with his sister’s version of the future and understands her well, The film was produced and directed by Studio Chizu.
- Movie version: July 20, 2018.
- Film director and writer: Mamoru Hosoda.
Servamp Alice in the Garden movie
This film is one of the films that relied on the principle of suspense and excitement. It received a huge fanfare when it was shown. It is a film that combines fantasy, fantasy and vampires.
His story revolves around presenting the past of some people and comparing it with the many strange paradoxes that occur to them at the present time. It has been classified under drama, action and comedy films. It is reported that it was produced by the Japanese studio Platinum Vision.
- Movie release date: July 13, 2018.
- film director: Hideaki Nakano.
- Film writer: Strike Tanaka.
Top 5 most popular Japanese anime of 2019
Weathering with You . movie
If you are interested in Japanese romantic anime, then this movie is for you. The film revolves around the story of a young man named Hadaka who lived on a remote island and moved to live in Tokyo, the capital. But the life of this young man is monotonous and boring without any relations with others, He later works as a writer for a mystery magazine in Tokyo that deals with bizarre natural phenomena.
Through his work there, he meets an orphan girl named Hina, who has an amazing ability to control and manipulate the weather. The events of the film begin to take another turn in the relationship of the young man and the girl with each other and with others around them.
This film is the result of the cooperation of three studios, namely: comics wave films, and Genki Kawamura, studio studio, He was later selected to represent Japan in the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, known as the Oscars.
- Movie release date: July 19, 2019.
- Film writer and director: Makoto Shinkai.
Hello World movie
The events of this film are slightly different in style, as they are events that take place in the future, specifically in the year 2027 AD. The story begins with the young man and shy high school student Naomi Katagaki having romantic feelings for his classmate and class club member Ruri Ichigeo. He actually started to tell her about his feelings for her.
One day, Naomi is surprised by the appearance of a person who came from the future 10 years later, also named Naomi, and that they must work together to change the future and save Ruri from a great danger that threatens her. The film is the work of the Japanese company Graphinica.
- Arabic name: Hello world.
- Movie release date: 7th, November, 2019.
- film director: Tomohiko Ito.
- Story writer and scriptwriter: Mado Nozaki.
Our seven-day war movie
This movie is one of those movies that tend to be action and fighting a bit. It talks about male and female students studying in a secondary school, and then they all disappear from school one day, They all hid in an abandoned factory near the river near their school. The aim is to rebel against the corrupt adults in their town, which suffers from the involvement of the corrupt in real kidnappings that always happen there.
The events continue with the participation of parents of students and television reporters who participated in broadcasting the 7-day war of liberation, which ended with the elimination of all the corrupt and the cleaning of the country from them.
- Movie release date: 13th, December, 2019.
- film director: Utah Murano.
- Writer and author of the original novel for the film: Souda Osamu.
Promare movie
This film expresses the state of the world after the catastrophe of the great fire that killed half the world’s population. And about the work of the main character of the film Gallo Themos in the firefighting unit he and his colleagues, which is powered by the new mechanism called Matoi Tech, Which made Gallo and his colleagues face many dangerous obstacles in the way of completing the tasks of extinguishing and controlling the fires, This film is a collaboration between studio Trigger and XFLAG.
- Movie release date: 16th, August, 2019.
- film director: Hiroyuki Imaishi.
- Film writer and screenwriter: Kazuki Nakashima.
- Film music designer: Hiroyuki Suwano.
- studio: Collaboration between studio Trigger and XFLAG.
Her Blue Sky movie
The film tells the story of a high school girl named Aoi who lives with her older sister Akane alone after the death of their parents as a result of a tragic accident 13 years ago. One day, Aoi was watching a band playing, Then I decided to move to Tokyo to learn and practice music playing. It is produced by the Japanese studio CloverWorks.
- Movie release date: 11th, October, 2019.
- film director: Tasuyuki Nagai.
- Film producers: Hiroyuki Shimizu, and Genki Kawamura.
- Music composer: Masaru Yokoyama.
Top 5 most popular Japanese anime of 2020
Demon Slayer movie: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train
The events of this film revolve around three people who go on a train that believes that a demon lives inside it. They want to reach him and kill him because he killed 40 demon slayers, During their journey, they meet a person named Kyogoro Ringoku, nicknamed the pillar of flame, who rides with them on the train. During their journey inside the train, some demons attack them and Kyogoro rushes to kill them, which makes the three people want to train on his hands and ask him to do so. The film is produced by the Japanese company Ufotable.
- Release date of the movie “Season Two”: 16th, October, 2020
- Film writer and author: Ufotable company.
- film director: Haru Sutozaki.
- Production team: Akifumi Fujio, and Masanori Miyake, And Yuma Takahashi.
The movie A Whisker Away
The events of this film begin when a young girl who studies in middle school, Mio Sasaki, loves a student who studies with her at school. And every day she goes out of school in order to flirt with her boyfriend, who is called Kento Hinode, And who was not reciprocated this love and hated her.
One day, Mio met a mysterious mask seller who gave her a magical mask called Noh. which transforms the wearer into a cat, So Miu put on this mask and turned into a cat, She wore it every evening and went to visit Kinto at his house, As the days went by, Kento became attached to the cat and loved it very much. Little did he know that it was Mio, the girl he didn’t love at all.
And the events of this movie continue like this until the end.
- Movie release date: June 18, 2020.
- film director: Junichi Sato.
- Film writer and author: Mary Okada.
- Movie music: Mina Kubota.
- studio: Three studios are: Colorado studio, and Toho Animation Studio, Dual Engine Studio.
movie made in abyss dawn of the deep soul
The events of this film start around an orphan girl named Riku, She lives in the Bleichiro orphanage in the town of Orth, which is surrounded by a deep pit with a huge opening that extends into the ground and contains artifacts and remnants of a civilization that ended a very long time ago, But everyone who went down to this hole and came back from it suffered a serious and fatal disease, and no one escaped from it. One day, Rico finds a robot that looks like a human. Riku befriends him and decides to go down with him into the deep pit that extends into the ground in the hope of finding her mother there. The film is produced by Kenemia Citrus studio.
- Movie release date: January 17, 2020.
- film director: Masayuki Kojima.
- Story writer and author: Hideyuki Kurata.
- studio: kenemia citrus.
It is noticeable in the end that Japanese anime films have their own character that differs from the anime films produced by the American Disney, Japanese anime films dealt with stories from a perspective suitable for both adults and children. Not all films are suitable for children. Also, some of these films contributed to changing the culture of many generations of those who watched them years ago, such as: Detective Conan movie series.
